<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Andy Green <<a href="mailto:andy@openmoko.com">andy@openmoko.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">Somebody in the thread at some point said:<br>
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</div>Hi -<br>
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> I may be mistaken here but I believe up to and including GTA02, it is<br>
> possible to configure the device to boot and operate from the built-in<br>
> storage (NAND?) memory. I understand it is currently possible to umount<br>
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</div>Yes it is true.<br>
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> the SD card and eject it while the device is running. I *really* like<br>
> this flexibility, let's try not to lose it!<br>
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</div>That is a bit tougher since it physically behind the battery on GTA02,<br>
and you have to umount before eject, plus we lack an eject notification<br>
signal on GTA02, but it is theoretically true if you power from USB and<br>
generated an eject notification by hand, for example.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div class="Ih2E3d"> <br>Oh yes this is true, on GTA0[12], the SD card sits behind the battery.. I had forgotten that.<br><br>
> If you guys consider moving the rootfs to an SD medium, then we lose<br>
> this possibility, unless there would be two SD slots. I think it would<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes the 6400 has enough SD controllers to manage two slots it seems.<br><div class="Ih2E3d">
</div></blockquote><div><br>OK then I guess my *wish* would be to keep the existing SD slot behind
the battery the way it is, and use it for rootfs. Then, add an extra SDIO slot but this one
accessible from outside without removing the cover, if possible. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
> I would *definitely* like this kind of setup.. Maybe keep the NAND for a<br>
> recovery kernel or not use it properly, and use two SD slots, one for<br>
> the rootfs and another one for removable storage (think music, gps maps,<br>
> pictures, etc).<br>
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> I'm not sure if I represent the typical user though :)<br>
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</div>I agree that seems a nice way.<br>
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- -Andy</div></blockquote><div><br> </div></div><br>
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Thanks!<br>Antoine<br><br>
PS: I just realized I didn't CC the list on my first reply... sorry.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Antoine Reid